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In response to the "Tank 300 seat belt break" incident that sparked much discussion on the Internet, the tank brand released a description of the incident on October 3. Officials said that after a comprehensive and detailed investigation, combined with the inspection of the scene of the Tank 300 accident and contacting the insurance company to obtain the initial photos of the accident provided by the personnel at the first scene, it was confirmed that the accident vehicle had been modified and a third-party transfer lock had been added. The seat belt fracture incident is indeed caused by modification, not product quality problems.

Official explanation: first, at the moment of the accident, the seat belt retractor pretightened and exploded, and the third-party transfer lock was strongly pulled off, and the force was as high as 1.8KN or above. This greatly reduces the restraint of the seat belt system on the occupants, which leads to the abnormal departure of the occupants; second, the pre-tightening end piece explodes, and after the installation of the third-party transfer lock is removed, the seat belt system is in a state of free relaxation. In the free state, the small lock at the connection between the pre-tightening end piece of the B-column and the seat belt is subjected to the dual action of the pre-tightening force of the pre-tightening end piece and the abnormal forward displacement and subduction force of the occupants, resulting in abnormal impact damage with the B-column lower trim plate. The excessive acceleration causes the small lock to deform, weakens the mechanism to prevent inertia dissociation, and finally detaches.

With the development of cars and the increase of personalized needs of consumers, more and more young car owners choose to refit their vehicles in order to improve the appearance and performance of their vehicles. Data show that in 2023, the domestic production of modified vehicles was 684800, the sales volume reached 685000, and the sales revenue was 167.098 billion yuan. It should be noted that although the modified car looks very fashionable, the domestic laws and regulations on the automobile modification are not perfect at present, and many modification projects cannot be passed during the annual inspection. At the same time, there are doubts about the safety of the modified vehicle. Therefore, car owners had better not modify their vehicles privately. After all, for the majority of car owners, the most important thing is to ensure safety as the premise. In response to this incident, tank brand officials stressed that seat belts, as key safety accessories, must not be modified privately and must be worn correctly. Tank brand officials also pointed out that if users have doubts about this problem in the later stage, the tank brand is willing to jointly entrust a third-party appraisal agency with the user to identify it.

Data show that the accident-related vehicle tank 300 is the first model under the tank brand, and it is also the best-selling model of the tank brand at present. The tank brand first belonged to the Great Wall Wei brand, hung the WEY logo, then separated from the Wei brand and operated independently, and changed its logo back to the tank mark, and the original "WEY" mark was also replaced with the "TANK" mark.

As a hard-line off-road SUV model, Tank 300 has been concerned by the market since it was put on the market. In the early days, it even fell short of supply and almost assumed the important task of tank brand sales. According to the data, the cumulative sales of tank brands in 2023 were 137400, of which 92900 were tanks, accounting for 67.62% of the total sales.

Up to now, the layout of the tank brand includes tank 300, tank 400, tank 500 and tank 700, of which tank 300 is still the main selling model. In the first eight months of this year, the cumulative sales of tank brands were 151100, an increase of 74.67% over the same period last year, of which retail sales of tank 300 were 52500, followed by tank 400 Hi-T and tank 500 Hi-T, 27000 and 26200.

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